Author Archive
Jul
15
2015
 
‘Flight Club’—The First PunchPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Flight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.” Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) I’m breaking the first two rules of Fight Club today by talking about Fight Club. But it’s okay because it’s really Fight Club […] “Digital equipment that allows you to shoot a film and edit it on your own computer to professional standard is the biggest innovation since the beginning of the history of cinema. The medium becomes accessible to people who cannot raise the funds usually associated with making a film….I’m more enthusiastic about films from the third […] “I’m not a person who runs to something. I’m not running to quality. I’m running from failure. And I know you would think having done this the way I’ve done it and having worked on the things I’ve worked on, that worked the way a lot of them worked, that at a certain point I would […]
Jul
08
2015
Emma Thompson on Rejection & PersistencePosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Most of the screenplays I’ve written have not been made. And the ones that haven’t been made I’ve worked very, very hard on, believed in and loved, and thought they were good, but they haven’t been made. Or you know I’ve handed them in and then somebody years later has made it with a different […] [Jim Sheridan] said—we we’re talking about playwriting— and he said the ending should be like a magnet. When you stop and think about that you get this piling of iron filings over here—which are the scenes and the characters, and the words which lift up—and when you get close to the magnet they get more […] “I was commissioned to write a sketch show in the mid-eighties –’85-‘86—and did so with a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth and it was I suppose kind of a signal, and I suppose the most important thing I ever did because it was such a massive failure. There were all kinds of reasons […]
Jun
29
2015
Postcard #89 (Universal Studios Florida)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaOne of the advantages of living in Orlando is just embracing the tourist thing from time to time. Today is my birthday so after doing a studio shoot this morning, editing this afternoon, I drove four miles from my edit bay to Portofino Bay at Universal Studios Florida. I had a wonderful dinner at Mama […] “People who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical…I used to write on the morning commuter train. It was sometimes no more than a paragraph a day, but it kept the candle burning.” Author Scott Turow “Right out of high school I […] “My job — and it’s something I discuss with [James Cameron] all the time — is to make sure at every turn of the film it’s something the audience can feel with their heart. When we lose a character, when somebody wins, when somebody loses, when someone disappears — at all times I’m keeping track, constantly, […]
Jun
22
2015
‘Denali’ & Branding StorytellingPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Getting a puppy, the comic Louis C.K. observed, is a ‘countdown to sorrow.’” What Our Dogs Teach Us About Aging by David Dudley Ben Moon & Denali’s story was told by Felt Soul Media whose website proclaims, “We strive to cause the rare magical goose bump that occur when pictures and sound are squished together just right.” Ben Knight and Travis Runnel are […] |
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